Word: out-of-pocket
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...appears from the report, however, that the University isn't expecting out-of-pocket costs to go up--instead, the task force seems to have expected that the number of trips to the doctor would go down...
...They are more likely to work part-time and in pink-collar jobs with-out health insurance, of the 16 million women without coverage in 1990, half had uninsured jobs. Those lucky enough to have insurance pay more; women aged 15 to 44 pay 68 percent more out-of-pocket for health care than their male counterparts...
...subcommittee chairman Fortney (Pete) Stark of California, they pushed through a plan that expands Medicare to achieve universal coverage while cutting back substantially on the White House's proposed benefits to hold down costs. Gone are such high-price items as long-term care and limits on out-of-pocket expenses for catastrophic illness. Under this plan, Medicare patients would foot 20% of their home-health-service bills, which is double what Clinton envisioned. The resulting savings of $6 billion, coupled with a cigarette-tax hike of $1.25 a pack, which would raise $16 billion in annual revenues, provides enough...
...revised number for how many Americans will pay more for health insurance. The figure was dropped from 40% of Americans to 30%. As explained to Congress by Budget Director Leon Panetta, the first figure counted only what people would pay in increased insurance premiums but didn't consider out-of-pocket costs such as co-payments, which are likely to decrease under the Clinton plan...
...transportation. School choice allows parents to select schools from a wide variety of geographic locations with considerable commuting distances. In the interests of equity and fairness, the state should eliminate the artificial barrier of excessive transportation cost by providing tax credits to the parents who pay transportation costs out-of-pocket...